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xFluing

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  1. Find some pads of the same thickness, all I can say.
  2. If you run high-ultra, yes, but on low-medium they should do pretty well. When will the press start running games on lower settings too so we can get a much better idea on how they perform on anything but ultra.
  3. kliksphilip ran GTA 5 on low in 4k at 30fps on a GTX 670, so 1440p 60fps should be easily achieveable with a 700 or 900 series card, and not even a flagship one.
  4. I have a Radeon HD 7850, which does indeed support VSR, and have been using it for a while now, however the specs of the card say it can get much higher resolutions, and I am able to get 2560x1440 on my second monitor (regardless if I put it in the HDMI or DVI port), but I can't seem to find any 2560x1600 settings for my main one, and the AMD site does state that on a 16:10 ratio it does support 1920x1200 and 2560x1600, the question is why can't I find it there? Is it a monitor limitation? Yes, I could easily switch monitors but I choose the 16:10 one because it's a much higher quality panel and the colours are way more accurate and look better on it compared to the cheaper TN panel the 16:9 monitor has. Edit: the highest resolution windows sees for the 16:10 monitor is 2048x1536 My monitors are as follows: Samsung SyncMaster 2243NW for my main one (the one on which 2560x1600 doesn't work) Asus VH228 for my secondary display (the one on which 2560x1440 DOES work)
  5. Yeah pretty much what @Morgan Everett said Lowering settings in modern games barely does anything, you'd be hard pressed to find a difference between medium and high in crysis 3 for instance, and old games that do look like shit on lower settings are old enough to be ran at high anyway. Even if there would be an increase of like 5% in graphical fidelity, that sure as hell doesn't justify the 25% loss in performance. I found medium settings (in modern games at least) to be the sweet spot between performance and graphical sacrifice. Sure, if there's plenty of headroom, like 600fps on medium go for high nothing is stopping you, but to outright dismiss medium settings is pretty dumb. Edit: in fact, I found Battlefield 1 (the new one) to look better on medium than it does on ultra, or even high, because of all the useless post-processing those settings add.
  6. That's the problem, you run them on Ultra, if you lower some settings (which shouldn't matter because we're reaching the point of diminishing returns) you can run 4k even on a GTX 670, so this way if you lower settings you can 1440p on pretty much any card that supports it. Edit: I just realised I said it can run Ultra myself, which is my bad, but still, lowering settings will allow you to do 1440p on a lot more cards than just the 1070
  7. That's wrong, 1070 ti can do 1440p ultra sure, but you can do 1440p with a lot of older cards if you turn down settings.
  8. OK good, because earlier I tried running heaven with 825 mV and it instantly crashed leaving my HDMI monitor completely black and the DVI one in artifacts, and even though I knew this doesn't harm the video card, I still was a little worried in the back of my head, but yeah thanks for clearing things out. Edit: the reason I went so far down is I saw someone else supposedly running the card at 825mV but that more than likely (now that I've crashed) was the voltage at idle.
  9. Alright thanks, but for my peace of mind, crashes caused by not enough voltage shouldn't harm the card right?
  10. Besides, it's not running hot per-se, it's just that I set the cooler to ramp up all the way to 100% (dual fan design too) so as to keep up with the temperatures and keep it around the 75 degree mark, and it still gets 75-76 degrees, just wanted to give the cooler an easier time. This only happens in Shadow Warrior, though it stays at around 70 in other demanding games.
  11. Because the overclock I have gives it a huge helping hand, I used to have lots of micro-stutters without it, they were completely gone afterwards.
  12. I'm looking to possibly try undervolting my card because it's already running pretty hot with the overclock in some games (Shadow Warrior 2013) Question is, how do I handle voltages to see if they're stable or not? How big of a step should I decrease in? 1? 10? 50?
  13. Most cards are capable of 1440p if you're willing to turn down some settings, you can 4k even with a gtx 670 this way
  14. Does it still run like shit on medium? If not, try keep it there, there isn't much difference between medium or high these days, even so, the increase in graphics would be too insignificant to warrant the performance hit. Also try to mess around with settings yourself, dont just use the preset, turn off useless shit like depth of field or chromatic abberation or motion blur (really, useless in any non-racing game) Also its ubisoft, their games are notorious for bad optimization, I can run crysis 2 in 100+fps but far cry blood dragon struggles to get 60+
  15. It wouldn't be worth it, it's almost as much as the card itself, and I can't really afford to dump more money into it right now. Besides, I can live with it, the fan is not as loud as you'd think, it's still rather quiet compared to the R7 250's, which was single fan (from sapphire as well.)
  16. Oh also, I found this 120mm cooler, it's single fan only though, an Accelero Mono Plus, it says it can handle up to 200w, however the 7850 is nowhere to be seen in the compatibility list.
  17. I tried to zip-tie a case fan to it, but I had a scare that by removing the other fan I had broken the cooler, because the fan that would normally spin stopped spinning, so I put it back together and it still didn't spin until I reached 80%, then it started spinning again at any percentage, so in hindsight I probably should have done the same with the zip-tied case fan.
  18. I want to know if there could be any cards similar in size to this one, so that I can maybe replace the cooler and have both fans working instead of just one and relying on the second one only as a last resort.
  19. I found out that I have the OC Edition card, but it has the bios of the Eyefinity edition one, so this might be what is causing it, and I'm thinking of re-flashing, but I'm too afraid I'll brick it.
  20. Upon further inspection I seem to have the OC edition card, but running with the Eyefinity bios, and that's what may be causing these issues, it might fix itself if I set the right bios for it.
  21. Also, Trixx tells me "VRM temps: not available" could it be that the second fan is controlled by the VRM temps, but the temp sensor broke?
  22. Thing is, it's only "needed" when the first fan reaches 90% or so which already sounds like a vacuum cleaner at that point, I want the second one to always be on, so as to not reach the vacuum cleaner point. Edit: Tried with Afterburner, Trixx, but they didn't help, the second one will always start at 90% speed of the first.
  23. I recently got this HD 7850, it's got the Dual-X cooler on it, but for some reason the second fan spins only when the first one reaches around 80 or 90%. When the first reaches 80%, the second one wants to spin, it's moving, but it won't do anything, even if helped, only at 90% it starts to actually spin. It works fine otherwise, temps never getting too high (highest I got, which is what made me create this thread, was 82 in Crysis 2). I would like to know if there would be a way to set the second fan to always spin, rather than only spin at 80+% of the first one.
  24. I finally got a "new" video card, a 2GB HD 7850, but I see in Afterburner it keeps it at 900mV idle but it shoots up to 1138 under load, these are the default settings afterburner opened with, I was wondering if it's safe to run it at this voltage. Edit: forgot pic
  25. I'm on a pretty tight budget, but I still want to upgrade from my R7 250 (yes, non-X), so far it's held up quite nicely after 3 years, the most demanding game currently being The Crew. Is upgrading to a 260x a good idea? Will it still last about 3 years? I found it for a really good deal on second hand so I really want to get it.
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